Ahram Online A tripartite committee is to meet soon in Cairo to resume negotiations over Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam, state news agency MENA reported on Tuesday. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced last week after their meeting in Equatorial Guinea’s capital of Malabo that the committee will resume work after it was
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Daily News Egypt By Ali Omar Egyptian FM calls agreement “new chapter” in relationship between the two countries Egypt and Ethiopia agreed Thursday to form a joint committee within three months to streamline discussions on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the countries’ Foreign Ministers announced in a joint statement. Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry
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The EastAfrican By Emmanuel Muga Tanzania’s Foreign Minister Bernard Membe has dismissed suggestions by the his Water colleague, Prof Jumanne Maghembe, that the country will ratify the Nile Basin Treaty in November. “I am the foreign minister; you should know that foreign ministers the world over take precedence on foreign issues over other ministers,” Mr
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Ahram Online The Egyptian foreign minister along with his Ethiopian counterpart stressed that Ethiopia will understand the importance of the Nile River to Egypt and that Egypt will understand the Ethiopian need for development Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi talks to Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn as they arrive to attend the 23rd African Union
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Middle East Online The guests had been seated at the tables of the great hall in Addis Ababa, and fanfares rang out as the Emperor Haile Selassie walked in with President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt at his right hand. Nasser was a “tall, stocky, imperious man, his head thrust forward and his wide jaws
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By Getachew Begashaw (PhD) Building the GERD In the first two partsof this series, we presented a focused analysis of the GERD, based on evidentiary information that is available in the public domain. We argued objectively and cogently that the social, economic, environmental and ecological adverse impacts of the GERD could be incalculable, and that the
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Ahram Online By Ayat Al-Tawy, An Egyptian broadcaster has been suspended for arguing with Ethiopia’s ambassador to Cairo during a live TV phone-in about Addis Ababa’s ongoing Nile dam project. On Wednesday, Rania Badawy, a talk show host on the privately-owned Tahrir satellite channel, got into a heated argument with Ethiopian envoy Mahmoud Dardir over
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Aawsat.net By Mohamed Abdu Hassanein Sisi to meet with Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam on sidelines of African Union summit later this month Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi takes the oath of office during his swearing-in ceremony as Egypt’s new president at the Supreme Constitutional Court in Cairo, June 8, 2014 in this still image taken from video. (Reuters/Egyptian State
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AFP Khartoum- Sudan Thursday appealed for Egypt to resume full participation in a 10-nation Nile River forum, four years after Cairo withdrew over fears for its access to the crucial water source. Egypt has limited its participation in the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) since 2010 when Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania signed a new treaty
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By Getachew Begashaw Part II: A Critical assessment of building large dams In Part I of this piece, we highlighted the requirements for an appropriately planned, designed, constructed and operated dam on Abay, the Blue Nile, and why it is in the national interest to do so, provided it is executed not for a short-term political and economic
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